As schools across the country continue to implement cell phone bans, a new Pew Research Center survey shows they continue to gain support. Seventy-seven percent of US adults support banning cell phones in middle and high school classes, and 48 percent support banning them for the entire school day. That's the first time more Americans […]
Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the Continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.
I'm building Kedge, a globally distributed platform for stateful serverless apps. Here's how you make a simple static site: `echo '# Hello world!' | ssh kedge.dev'
I helped build Fly.io for 4 years and shared enthusiasm for the founders' vision of a 'global Heroku'. While there, I wrote "The Serverless Server" (https://fly.io/blog/the-serverless-server/) as a study of Lambda and a sketch of a modern serverless product built around lightweight VMs. That essay was the initial inspiration for Kedge.
Kedge has a fast VM orchestrator that can create code sandboxes or scale service instances in 3ms, using a combination of forkable VM snapshots and a tree of warm pools (Linux kernel -> base runtime -> app). VMs are memory-dense thanks to shared copy-on-write memory pages. You can run lightweight CGI-style functions, public OCI images, or source code for BuildKit to compile and deploy.
Kedge's global control plane sits on an eventually-consistent SQLite database. Taking inspiration from Corrosion and Litestream, I built a local-first, multi-writer CRDT-based replication system backed by object storage, and just recently made it open source (https://github.com/wjordan/syzy).
You can also use a SQLite client to query `/shared.db` from any instance for a build-in replicated database in your app. This lets Kedge autoscale services close to your users while each instance queries its local replica for eventually-consistent data, with no need to micro-manage instance or volume placement. (There's also a /shared/ filesystem adapter for convenience.)
Kedge can even use this same database for stateful, server-rendered HTML apps. Data attributes bind forms, buttons, and values to records in the app database, Kedge compiles the schema and operations at deploy-time, and then queries the local data to serve requests. As a demo, I made a Hacker News clone with story submission, votes, comments and auth in about 60 lines of Markdown, plus CSS (https://kedge.dev/docs/html-apps#kedger-news).
I've just started collecting public feedback, so please let me know what you think! I'm particularly interested in feedback on the stateful HTML app model, which is the newest (and most ambitious) piece. The preview is currently running in 11 regions for you to kick the tires. There's no billing yet, so the pricing page is an estimate. Thanks for taking a look!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099434
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Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier this year, Ferrari has reportedly already hit its 2026 sales goal for its polarizing, Jony Ive-designed Luce EV. Ahead of Ferrari announcing its quarterly earnings on Thursday, the Financial Times reports that Ferrari was aiming to sell "just under 500" Luce units this year, and reached that […]
Hi HN, Rohit here from Tokenless (https://usetokenless.com/), which I’m building alongside co-founders Andrew and Kev. We’re building an API gateway which routes agent traffic dynamically turn-by-turn between different models to save on AI spend.
The cost of AI tokens is top-of-mind for many. Companies like Uber and Salesforce have been complaining about blowing their yearly AI spend faster than expected.
Frontier models are amazing for dev work, but are so expensive. Open-source models are cheap and rapidly improving, closing the gap with frontier models, but aren’t quite there yet.
Tokenless gets you the best of both worlds–routing harder turns to smarter models only when needed, which keeps costs low.
Before Tokenless, I was doing a PhD at Princeton. While using coding/other agents, I constantly agonized over model choice, to make sure my AI spend was going as far as possible on my academic Cursor account.
At the same time, I was doing LLM research, and a small technique I developed while in recovery from NeurIPS submission season seemed to hit SOTA pretty fast. I was surprised that such simple ideas could do routing well.
We’ve been able to develop a version of the router that matches the performance of Claude Fable 5 at half the cost. The blog post on our website explores the technical details on how we did this (https://usetokenless.com/blog/building-tokenless/).
Highlights: - Our approach queries multiple models at once and uses their progress to make decisions (this technique is novel AFAIK, let us know if you know anyone else doing this). - Switching models doesn’t destroy the cache if the routing algorithm is aware of when the cache is hot/cold.
To come: - Adding Kimi K3, all other GPT efforts and more to the router
Go ahead and sign up on usetokenless.com and try using Tokenless with your agent, you’ll get $20 of free credit. Here’s a demo on how to use it: https://youtu.be/sjZWriclcls
Tokenless provides frontier-level intelligence for cheaper, so we’d love some feedback on how it feels to use, any corner cases that the router routes incorrectly, and whether you find the routing problem interesting!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099143
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I registered the domain onlyfans.sexy ~6 years ago as a gag where I'd post pictures of fans (everything on the site and in this post is SFW). This year I got an email stating that, like all prior years, the domain would auto-renew at $38 in seven days and didn't think anything of the next two emails also notifying me that the domain would auto-renew.
It would seem that I very much SHOULD have paid attention to those next two emails, because in both the three and one day renewal emails the price changed from $38 to $3000. Needless to say, I was surprised when I was billed $3k USD (plus tax).
After contacting Hover's customer support, they told me that there was nothing that they could do about this and they have a no refund policy because "Hover does not have the ability to override or reverse pricing set by the registry. Premium domain pricing, including renewal costs, is determined by the registry, and they may adjust those prices over time. Once a renewal has been processed, we are charged that fee immediately by the registry, and those charges are non-refundable to us."
So according to Hover, the .sexy registry (Uniregistry) sets prices as it sees fit, decided to jack up the renewal cost at the last minute because they can, and there's simply nothing they or I can do about it. Has anyone here experienced anything similar?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099021
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X sued the WFA in 2024 for conducting what it called a "systematic illegal boycott" of the platform after it saw a decline in advertising revenue following Musk's $44 billion takeover of the social network.
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.